Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Historical Investigation, Day 5 - Class Recap


Revolution Square, in Bucharest, Romania has this monument to King Carol I. The square is quite famous in Romanian history! Photo taken in 2013.

Hi everyone,

Welcome back from Spring Break! We had a day in class of peer review and working on the historical investigation. Here's what we did today in class:

Learning Targets: 
Knowledge LT 19: I can explain the impacts of nationalism and revolutionary movements.
Communication LT 1: I can communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
Research LT 1: I can effectively conduct and apply research.
Critical Thinking LT 2: I can explain connections between events, issues, problems and concepts.
Behavior LT1: I can manage my responsibilities as a student.
--- I talked for a bit in class about this, and the importance of managing your responsibilities as a student with this project. Print off your papers before class! Ask me for help if you need it at the start of Spring Break, instead of the night before it is due!

Soundtrack: "Come Together" by The Beatles. Selected for today because Part B was due. Beatles. Part B. Get it? Lyrics here.

AGENDA 3/30/16:
News Brief - Mr. Fritz
Spring Break
Part B/D Peer Review
Part C/Work Time

Homework: Read the blog! Keep working on your Historical Investigation. If you do not have Parts A, B, and D at least as a rough draft, you are behind! Next news brief: Natalie.
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News Brief/Spring Break: I had the news brief today and selected an article about this story to talk about: NBCNews.com - North Korea: U.S. Military Drills Take Region to 'Brink of War'. We found North Korea in the world map packet and talked about how the United States and South Korea are allies, and how North Korea doesn't really like us participating in military drills together. We checked in about Spring Break and what people were up to, as well.

We also watched the one minute BBC World News update. Here's the link to see the latest one minute update, at any time of day (it will probably be different from what we watched in class):


The next news brief was assigned to Natalie.

Part B/D Peer Review: There were many students who needed me to help them print their Part B documents, and it seemed like lots more who need to catch up with the rest of the class. If you have not finished the first draft of Part B and D, you are behind! Here's the peer review form/checklist that I passed out today to help with getting better:


It is your responsibility to get a great peer review and give one, too! It helps make everyone's work better. Please continue working on improving these sections!

Part C: For students who were done with Part B, I introduced Part C, which is the conclusion, where you answer your research question, now that you have found and used your sources of information in Part B. but it is on page 4 here:


We will continue to work on this next class! If you are on schedule with your historical investigation, these next two days in class will be spent wrapping up your work and refining your final paper.

Work Time: The rest of class was devoted to working quietly on the assignment, and I was happy to try and answer questions along with print off papers.

Thank you for your hard work - please let me know if there is anything else I can help with!
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